Understanding & Avoiding Plagiarism - Innovative Educators

comes through in this paraphrase, and it’s quitedifferent from the original quote.If you’re having trouble when you’re a paraphrasing,a better idea would be to just quote your originalsource instead rather than to end up paraphrasinginappropriately and ending up plagiarizing.Slide 17: Tips for Avoiding PlagiarismNow that we have defined plagiarism and we havealso looked at the requirements for documentingyour sources, it’s time to talk a little bit more abouthow you can avoid plagiarism in your own writing.The first tip that I would give to you is to be reallycareful in the note-taking phase of your project.When you’re taking notes on your sources, try toavoid writing down quotes or inappropriateparaphrases without making any specific notations inyour writing.So for instance, if you’re writing down a quote, bereally careful to put quotation marks around it in yournotes so that you don’t accidentally think that youparaphrased it correctly already and would forget toput quotes in the paper when you turn in your finalPublished by Articulate Presenterwww.articulate.com